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when Whitman wrote, “I sing the body electric”I know what hemeantI know what hewanted:to be completely alive every momentin spite of the inevitable.we...more

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when I am feelinglowall i have to do iswatch my catsand mycouragereturns

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There is a blue bird in my heart that wants to get out.

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Ya got cigarettes?” she asks. “Yes,” I say,“I got cigarettes.” “Matches?” she asks.“Enough to burn Rome.” “Whiskey?”“Enough whiskey for a Mississippi ...more

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be it peace or happinesslet it enfold you

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the flesh covers the bone and they put a mind in there and sometimes a soul, and the women break vases against the walls and the men drink too much an...more

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Yawn...I believe that I love sleepmuch more than anybody I’ve evermet.I have the ability to sleep for2 or 3 days andnights.I will go to bed at any giv...more

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I always felt it wouldpass.I listened to the charges against meknowing some of them to be truebut certainly notimportant enoughto become the target of...more

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unaccountably we are aloneforever aloneand it was meant to bethat way,it was never meantto be any other way–and when the death strugglebeginsthe last ...more

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I often stood in front of the mirror alone, wondering how ugly a person could get.

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And it seems people should not build houses anymoreit seems people should stop working and sit in small rooms on second floorsunder electric lightswit...more

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aboutour argument tonightwhatever it wasaboutand no matterhow unhappyit made usfeelremember thatthere is acatsomewhereadjusting to thespace of itselfw...more

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I care for you, darling, I love you,the only reason I fucked L. is because you fuckedZ. and then I fucked R. and you fucked N.and because you fucked N...more

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Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?

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beware women grownoldwho were neveranything butyoung